Mehmet Kurtuluş is a Turkish actor. He was born in Uşak, Turkey, and moved at the age of 18 months to Germany, where he grew up with his brother, Tekin, in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. He performed several minor television roles in episodes of different TV shows and continued working in theater until his big-screen debut in his main role as the young Turkish boy Gabriel in Fatih Akın's filmKurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock). After his breakthrough, he appeared in the successful TV mini-series Der Tunnel, of Roland Suso Richter, where he performed alongside Heino Ferch and Nicolette Krebitz. Doris Dörrie chose him for her sex comedy Naked. He went back to working in television with the love film Eine Liebe in Saigon (Love in Saigon) with Luxembourgian actress Désirée Nosbusch (to whom he is engaged). He played the main detective role in six episodes of the cult German television series Tatort. He announced afterwards that he would be working on international projects. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

• 2025And The Rest Will Follow — Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
• 2024Mary — Bava Ben Buta
• Testament: The Story of Moses — Pharaoh
• Mordach - Tod in den Bergen — Cuma Ozan
• 2022The Young Chief Winnetou — Intschu-tschuna
• FBI: International — Mehdi Esfandiari
• Into the Night — Ayaz
• 2019Abikalypse — Mustis Vater
• 2019Who Killed Lady Winsley? — Fergan
• The Protector — Mazhar Dragusha
• 2017Clair Obscur — Cem
• Culpa - No One Is Innocent — Journalist
• 2017Snowflake — Feuer
• 20158 Seconds — Sami
• Abenteuer Türkei — Sprecher
• 2015Famous Five 4 — Farouk
• Magnificent Century: Kösem — Derviş Paşa
• 2014Big Game — Hazar
• 2014Head Full of Honey — Dr. Holst
• 2012Empathy Bx — Rashid
• 2010Transfer — Laurin
• 2009Vasha — Artur
• 2007Pars: Operation Cherry — Atilla Karahan
• 2006Eine Liebe in Saigon — Robin
• 2004Head-On — Barmann Istanbul, Producer
• 2004Soundless — Sicherheitschef des Russen
• 2003Abdulhamid Falling — Bnb. Şefik Bey
• 2002Boran — Deniz Akim
• 2002Equilibrium — Search Coordinator
• 2002Naked — Dylan
• 2001Herz — Cem Rüya
• 2001The Tunnel — Vittorio Castanza
• 2000In July — Isa
• 1999Versprich mir, dass es den Himmel gibt — Louis
• 1998Short Sharp Shock — Gabriel
• 1997Getürkt
• SK-Babies — Hakan Yassin
• Adelheid und ihre Mörder — Hassan
• DAS!
• Scene of the Crime — Cenk Batu, Cem Aslan
• A Small Mistake — Selim
• Juste après l'aube

Appearances as themselves (7)

• So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag — Self
• Odysso - Wissen entdecken — himself
• Abendschau — Self
• Tietjen und Bommes — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• Grimme Award — Self